By: EFE
A company located in the city of Monterrey, state of Nuevo León, northern Mexico, seeks to create the first hybrid bank in Mexico and for this offered 16,04 million dollars in cryptocurrencies by the financial institution Banamex.
On Tuesday, the firm Citi, which in 2001 bought the Mexican bank, revealed that it will leave CitiBanamex’s consumer banking and business banking, as part of its new strategic vision.
This Thursday, through a statement, the firm Isatek stated through its executive director, Alfonso Jiménez Pérez , its interest in acquiring the assets of Banamex and launched the first offer, for 16,000 millions of dollars of your cryptocurrency Amero, to create the first hybrid banking entity in Mexico.
The leader of the firm of cryptocurrencies made its offer known once Citigroup put Banamex up for sale, as part of its plan to close commercial banking operations in Mexico.
The businessman pointed out that they are attentive to know “how much the amount for the purchase, in cryptocurrencies, of the institution would amount to financial”, whose assets for sale include its branches, Afore, insurance company, debit and credit card business.
He pointed out that in financial circles there are versions of offers for Banamex, between 13,000 Y 14,000 million dollars, so “ Isatek raises his hand with the first offer for 15.04 millions of dollars in cryptocurrencies“.
According to analysts private, Ban’s business amex would reach up to 15,000 million dollars as the fifth largest player in the Mexican financial market.
Jiménez Pérez said that with the transaction he intends to “expand the foray into the financial market of Isatek, promoter of Amero, the Mexican cryptocurrency backed by real estate for an amount of 60 billions of dollars”.
Remembered that now that the Bank of Mexico is going to create its own cryptocurrency, Isatek wants to “enter into hybrid banking” and added that “on a global level, hybrid banks are being formed and traditional banks are now involved in cryptocurrencies”.
This Thursday, the Mexican president, Andrés Manuel López Obrador, asked for this “return Banamex to Mexico” after the American Citigroup announced that it will close its retail banking operations in the country, which includes the CitiB brand anamex.
In addition, the president “celebrated ” that the Mexican tycoon Ricardo Salinas Pliego, owner of Banco Azteca, “has expressed his interest in buying it”.
And he considered that “the same could be thought” of Carlos Slim of Inbursa, of Carlos Hank González of Banorte and José Javier Garza Calderón and a group of investors from the northern state of Nuevo León.
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